Análise de uma tarefa exploratória aliada ao uso de tecnologias digitais em aulas de cálculo no contexto remoto

Abstract

In this research, it was discussed how the promotion of exploratory tasks was developed in a Differential and Integral Calculus course with more than one real variable in the context of distance learning. The participants of the research are students from two engineering classes at a federal university in the state of Paraná. This qualitative and interpretive research was developed over the course of two semesters in 2021, and the data analyzed according to the Grounded Theory approach with support from ATLAS.ti® software, are from one of the semesters. The research analyzed data from three groups of three or four students: records of the development of an exploratory task left by the groups in the virtual learning environment of the classes, and transcriptions of video call discussions held by small groups throughout the semester. The results obtained allow us to highlight, throughout the group discussion excerpts, the categories, named: "Collaboration Aspects," "Task Resolution," and "Digital Technologies." The Collaboration aspect had the right potential to provide Collaborative Learning, in which students were willing to develop the proposed task and had the opportunity to choose their strategies and methods for problem-solving, as well as presenting ideas and suggestions to their group colleagues. Task resolution in the remote context favoured student autonomy in seeking and developing strategies and methods that could be used to solve the exploratory task that was proposed. The use of digital technologies assisted the groups in communication, as all meetings happened through video calls, and the software used aided in organizing ideas and strategies used by the students. The implementation and analysis of the research data enabled the development of an e-book with characteristics of collaboration, use of Digital Technologies and resolution strategies of five exploratory tasks for teaching Calculus of functions of more than one real variable.